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Total Membership 25 The Forum is quorate if at least 40% (10) of the members are present London Borough of Waltham Forest SCHOOLS FORUM Day/Date/Time Venue Wednesday 11 December 2019 Norlington School and 6th Form Tea/Coffee and Light Refreshments: 5:00pm Norlington Road, Leyton, London, E10 6JZ Main Meeting: 5:30pm (Parking Access via Pretoria Road) Contact: Telephone / Email: Clerk to Schools Forum [email protected] Maintained Primary Headteacher Representatives (5) Kathryn Soulard Greenleaf Primary School Tracey Griffiths Barncroft Primary School Lindsey Lampard Chingford C of E Primary Linda Adair Henry Maynard Primary School and Nursery Ruth Boon St Joseph’s Infants Primary Academies and Primary Free Schools Representatives (4) Amanda Daoud Lime Trust Larkswood Anne Powell Riverley Primary Maureen Okoye (Chair) Davies Lane Primary Academy & Selwyn Primary VACANT Maintained Primary Governor Representatives (1) Aktar Beg Edinburgh Primary Nursery School Representative (1) Helen Currie Forest Alliance Nursery Schools Maintained Secondary Headteacher Representatives (2) Clive Rosewell Willowfield School Jenny Smith Frederick Bremer Secondary Academies and Secondary Free Schools Representatives (4) Tracey Penfold Highams Park John Hernandez Norlington School and Sixth Form Rob Pittard Norlington School and Sixth Form Jane Benton Chingford and South Chingford Foundation Maintained Secondary Governor Representative (1) Gillian Barker Walthamstow School for Girls Special School and Special Academies Representative (1) Elaine Colquhoun Whitefield Academy Trust PRU (1) Catherine Davis Hawkswood Group Non School Members (4) Early Years Providers Sarah Kendrick (Redwood Pre-School) 16-19 Providers Joy Kettyle (Waltham Forest College) Trade Unions Steve White (NEU) Diocesan Andy Stone (Holy Family) 1 Total Membership 25 The Forum is quorate if at least 40% (10) of the members are present AGENDA Agenda Report Name Report Authors Item 1 Welcome all and Apologies. Chair 2 Declarations of Interest All 3 Minutes of the Meeting held on 13 November Chair 2019 and Matters Arising 3a Matters Arising Chair 3b Decision Sheet from Meeting 13 November For the record 2019 4a Growth Fund 2020-21 Jerome Francis 4b Falling Rolls Fund 2020-21 Jerome Francis 5 Update on LFF 2020-21 Jerome Francis 6 Services to Maintained Schools 2020-21 Duncan James-Pike 7 Central School Services Block 2020-21 Duncan James-Pike 8 1.Paper from SEND Crisis Ken Barlow 2.Statement from the London Borough of David Kilgallon Waltham Forest 9 Proposals for High Needs 2020-2021 David Kilgallon Date of Next Meeting: Wednesday 15 January 2020 5:30pm (Light refreshments from 5:00pm) Norlington School and 6th Form Norlington Road, Leyton, London, E10 6JZ 2 Schools Forum – 13 November 2019 MINUTES OF SCHOOLS FORUM MEETING Wednesday, 13 November 2019 Norlington School and Sixth Form 5:30-6:44 ATTENDEES Jelise Caruth Clerk to Schools Forum [email protected] Maintained Primary Headteacher Representatives (5) Kathryn Soulard Greenleaf Primary School Kate Jennings Mission Grove Lindsey Lampard Chingford C of E Primary Linda Adair Henry Maynard Primary School and Nursery Ruth Boon St Joseph’s Infants Primary Academies and Primary Free Schools Representatives (4) Amanda Daoud Lime Trust Larkswood Anne Powell Riverley Primary (Not Present) Maureen Okoye (Chair) Davies Lane Primary Academy & Selwyn Primary Academy VACANT Maintained Primary Governor Representatives (1) Aktar Beg Edinburgh Primary Nursery School Representative (1) Helen Currie Forest Alliance Nursery Schools Maintained Secondary Headteacher Representatives (2) Clive Rosewell Willowfield School Meryl Davies Walthamstow School for Girls Secondary Academies and Secondary Free School Representatives (3) Tracey Penfold Highams Park John Hernandez Norlington School and Sixth Form (Vice-Chair) Rob Pittard Norlington School and Sixth Form (Not Present) Jane Benton Chingford and South Chingford Foundation (Not Present) Maintained Secondary Governor Representative (1) Gillian Barker Walthamstow School for Girls Special School and Special Academies Representative (1) Elaine Colquhoun Whitefield trust PRU (1) 3 1 Schools Forum – 13 November 2019 Catherine Davis Hawkswood Group (Not Present) Non-School Representatives (4) Early Years Providers Sarah Kendrick (Redwood Pre-School) 16-19 Providers Liz Tattle (Waltham Forest College) Trade Unions Steve White (NEU) (Not Present) Diocesan Andy Stone (Holy Family) LBWF Officers Duncan James-Pike Strategic Finance Advisor – Children and Young People Services Raina Turner Head of Finance Families Group (Schools and Education Services) Mohammed Akhtar E Y Finance Manager Jerome Francis Principal Accountant David Kilgallon Director of Learning, Families and Homes Sergio Dimech Principal Accountant Jelise Caruth LBWF, Clerk to Schools Forum Observers Heather Flinders Strategic Director of Families Gary Pocock Lime Trust Hornbeam Gill Hart George Tomlinson Primary School Nicola Wilson Karina Thomson Shermaine Lewis SBM, Frederick Bremer School Graham Jackson SBM, Willowfield School Apologies Jane Benton Chingford and South Chingford Foundation Jenny Smith Frederick Bremer Helen Currie Forest Alliance Nursery Schools Rob Pittard Norlington School and Sixth Form 1. Welcome and Apologies The Chair welcomed and thanked all present for attending the meeting. Norlington School & Sixth Form were thanked for offering their school as a venue for School Forum. Observers were identified and noted as well as apologies. 2. Declaration of Interest 4 2 Schools Forum – 13 November 2019 Lime Trust Hornbeam and Lime Trust Larkswood declared special school interest in relation to the agenda items. It was clarified this doesn’t exclude them. 3. Minutes of the Meeting held on 16 October 2019 and Matters Arising It was pointed out that on page 5, item 3.3a, it should read September 2019 instead of September 2018. The time the meeting is closed should also be included on page 10. The minutes were reviewed and approved as an accurate reflection of the meeting. 3a Decision sheet from Meeting 16 October 2019 There were no comments. 4. Local Funding Formula 2020-21 4.1 Asking Schools Forum for some key decisions tonight which will be put out to a short consultation and reported back at the December meeting. 4.2 The LA is recommending that it aims to move to using the NFF factors while using the maximum MFG of +1.84% to distribute the increase in funding we are getting in 2020-21. 4.3 The increase in funding and high MFG allows a “soft landing” into the NFF. The individual school NFF allocations that are published by the ESFA show the NFF calculations, but these are overridden for our schools by the ESFA inflating a baseline that is above current NFF levels. When we use a high MFG the outcome under the LFF and NFF are similar as the MFG overlays any other effects. 4.4 Table 1 shows that the higher the MFG the more evenly the increases are shared out and the lower the MFG the less evenly the increases are shared out: the minimum increase becomes smaller and the maximum increase becomes bigger. This is our recommended model as it seems to match 3 of the 4 principles: fairness, stability and transparency. 4.5 Table 2 shows that the lower the MFG the less it costs so that more funding is available to allocate through other factors. 4.6 Table 3 is like Table 1 but uses the hybrid method (halfway between the NFF and LFF). Again, the MFG is the most important factor. Appendix 1 shows the NFF- based model G 4.7 Appendix 2 shows the hybrid-based model H. For many schools not that much difference between G and H 4.8 Appendix 3 shows MFG operating: takes all pupil led funding + split sites + PFI but excludes rates and lump sum 5 3 Schools Forum – 13 November 2019 4.9 Appendix 4 shows the factor rates used in the different models. The NFF block shows the greater emphasis on LPA and IDACI and less emphasis on Basic Entitlement (AWPU) as discussed previously 4.10 Appendix 5 shows indicative actual and per pupil costs of top slicing for different levels of the Falling Rolls Fund, contingencies and possible contributions to the Growth Fund or HNB 4.11 Comments, Questions and Responses There were none. 4.12 Recommendation: 4.13 To note that we will be doing a week-long online consultation to check out your decisions giving all schools the opportunity to comment and also to agree: to either move towards the NFF as in model G or something else; preference for MFG to be at 1.84% as a maximum set or at another rate; and if we do have any additional funding available after running the formula that we put that through basic entitlement (AWPU) or another way. This will be our mandate for how we aim to do things. Once we get the October 19 census in mid-December then the actual budgeting tool may need to be moderated if it starts calculating strange outliers. This will set the principles by which we set the budget. 4.14 Vote to agree on 2.2.1A (NFF Model G) or 2.2.1B (another model): A- 16 B-0 No Abstentions 4.15 Vote to agree 2.3A (MFG +1.84%) or 2.3B (another rate): A-16 B-0 No Abstentions 4.16 Vote to agree 2.4A (Basic Entitlement) or 2.4B (another method) A-16 B-0 No Abstentions 5. Growth Fund and Falling Rolls Fund 5.1 We are asking School Forum to note the minimum allocation that we expect to get is £885,000 but we’re expecting to spend £1.47 million on growing the existing scheme and it is needed to agree how to close the gap. There are several ways of doing this. Either we honour the growth scheme in full and top slice the schools block; or we honour it in full and we use Growth Funding reserve; or our preferred method, a combination of the two; or scale back to cost no more than the money that we have available.
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